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  • Stories/Case Studies

    Provide a Better Service, the Rest Will Follow: SWaCH PCMC Brings Waste Pickers into Mainstream

    In Pune, KKPKP (the waste pickers’ union) has fought long and hard to bring about a gradual change in peoples’ attitude towards waste pickers....

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Urban Informal Workers and the Green Economy – Fact Sheet

    Fact SheetProduced for the Rio+20 international conference in 2012, this fact sheet details how sectors within the informal economy are playing...

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  • Audiovisual Materials

    A Beijing Recycler’s Life

    This video follows recyclers in Beijing and shares the work they have been doing for 20 years. The video is in Chinese with English subtitles....

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Não Há Fronteiras para Aqueles que Lutam! Janeiro-fevereiro 2013

      Boletim da Aliança Global de Catadores, janeiro – fevereiro 2013   Available in English here. Disponível em Português aqui. Disponible...

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  • WIEGO Network Newsletters

    Lettre d’Information OBA de WIEGO avril 2013

    Une newsletter de WIEGO aux organisations de travailleurs informels basées sur leurs adhérents (OBA), avril 2013.

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  • Fact Sheets/Infographics

    Recicladores: El derecho a ser reconocidos como trabajadores

    Mucho antes de que el concepto de economía verde fuera adoptado globalmente, los recicladores, junto con otros trabajadores de la economía...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Pas de frontières pour ceux qui luttent – mai et juin 2013

    Bulletin de l’Alliance Mondiale des Récupérateurs, mai et juin 2013   Available in English here. Disponible en español aquí.   Disponible...

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    WASTE Bulletin No 5

    Newsletter from WASTE Advisers on Urban Environment and Development More information about WASTE is here.

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  • Toolkits and Guides

    Día Mundial del Reciclador: ¡Un día para celebrar, 364 días de lucha!

    Alianza Global de Recicladores señala que “Para celebrar el Día Mundial del Reciclador/a, hemos compilado lo más destacado de No hay...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    WIEGO Network Platform (Russian): Transitioning from the Informal to the Formal Economy in the Interest of Workers in the Informal Economy

    Russian translation Also available:EnglishSpanishFrench

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